There is a chick in my refrigerator

So this morning I walked into the kitchen to find that a baby chick had walked into the kitchen looking for its mother. It was pretty sad, actually. It was obviously freaked because it couldn’t find her. I felt sorry for it….until it ran behind the fridge and climbed into the cooling mechanism thingie. Great. So, my sister Smi and I spent 20 minutes trying to coax it out so that it could return to the outside. What an interesting way to start a day. Haha.

So, my two little sisters, Nothabo and Sindiswa, her friend who has started living with us full time, have been making Valentine’s Day cards for pretty much everyone they know. It has been fun because they didn’t ever really do “creative-type” things (as Nozipho puts it) before I came and provided them with the paper and markers.

Then, I made Valentine’s Day cookies in the afternoon and afterwards Smi, Nothabo, Sindiswa, Nozipho and I played two hours of barefoot soccer/netball/ pickle in the middle until it got really buggy and dark. It was so much fun and I really like being part of a family here. I think that my relationship with these girls makes my Peace Corps experience (+ my work of course).

Afterwards we ate ice cream and watched the Valentine’s Day movie that was on TV. Nice.

Around 9:30 tonight I went outside to look to see if the chick was still around. She was and had curled up under a pipe trying to keep warm and was shivering. I scooped her up and put her in a box in my room wrapped in a nest-like towel, and she fell fast asleep. I think that I will try to help this little chick out, I don’t really want it to die since it has no mother and all that. Plus I am super bored.
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